Frindle

"Is Nick Allen a troublemaker? He really just likes to liven things up at school - and he's always had plenty of great ideas. But it looks like Nick's days of classroom shenanigans are over - thanks to his no-nonsense teacher, Mrs. Granger. That is, until Nick learns an interesting tidbit about how words are created. This inspires his greatest plan yet: invent a new word. From now on, a pen is no longer a pen - it's a frindle. But what happens when the word starts to catch on... around school, around town? Suddenly, frindle doesn't belong to Nick anymore. The word is spreading and there's nothing Nick can do to stop it..." -- Back Cover.